Home-grown Goodness

Thursday

May 2, 2013 at 2:00 AM

By Katherine Berman

kberman@inkym.com I&M Staff Writer

The silhouette of a rooster on a barn with a swirled sun, whimsically-patterned fields, husks of corn and ocean waves is popping up on Nantucket menus and appearing in the windows of island restaurants. The banner, “Nantucket Grown” arcs across the top, with “Sustainable Nantucket” touted on the bottom.

This is Sustainable’s “Nantucket Grown Brand,” and its presence at an island restaurant acknowledges that the establishment sources a certain percentage of its produce from island farms or purveyors, and, according to Michelle Whelan, the executive director of Sustainable Nantucket, will motivate more restaurants to follow suit.

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